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Everyone has abdominal muscles hiding behind their abdominal fat. Oftentimes the only thing that's separating you from your six-pack is a good fat loss phase. - But abdominal training still can be useful. Next to the core stability benefits you obtain, it's also possible to grow your abdominal...

I am oversleeping while on cycle. I've dropped the tren, its better just on test, but still not 100%. I need to actually get up and not feel ill and have to go back to sleep again. This is eating up half my day already and really needs to stop asap. I did try force getting up and ended up...

The general population in today’s society is gaining fat and losing muscle. This means that, for some people, the low amount of muscle causes a weight loss which results in a normal BMI even though their bodyfat % is high! 50% of women and 25% of men have been shown to have a bodyfat % high...

Does lifting faster increase strength gains? _ You often hear the advice of “lifting slowly” and “focus on the squeeze in the muscle”. _ Turns out this might very well cut your 1RM strength gains in half. _ Performing squats with maximal speed in the upward (concentric) phase vs half the...

Nootropic Smart Drugs Racetam and Modafinil Positive Impact on Performance Training. Nootropics, also referred to as cognitive enhancers, smart drugs, and memory enhancers are supplements, synthetic peptides, and nutraceuticals that are reported to improve focus, thought connection, memory, and...

Although most common, aspartame isn’t the only artificial sweetener on the market. Stevia is a relatively new sweetener and marketed as a “natural” calorie-free sweetener as it comes from a South American plant, but the fact is that it isn’t nearly as well studied as aspartame, and we thus can’t...

"There ARE situations where people eat 1200 calories without losing weight, but this is almost never in overweight individuals. Usually, normal-to-underweight people looking to lose those last percent of body-fat can reach this state, common among female athletes who have chronically dieted for...

"Hyperfocusing on a single nutrient, e.g. saturated fats, can lead to a very skewed idea of what constitutes a “healthy” diet. As an example, consider sources of saturated fats. Coconut oil, beef, eggs, salmon and whole-milk yoghurt are all sources of saturated fats, but they all come with...

Over time, we learn to tie rewards to certain “triggers”, i.e. things in our environment which create an itch in our brain for a certain behavior. . A classic example of a trigger is when you walk past a burger joint, smell the fresh sensation of burgers and fries, and end up feeling the urge to...

I am 45 years old 5'11 and fluctuate between 185lbs to 190lbs with body fat at 11%. I was very active in martial arts and weight training from my late teens to my late twenties and stopped in my early 30's to focus on career and building a family. At 40 (4 kids later and finished) I decided to...

Many people have goal physiques and seek to obtain a level of leanness or muscular development of someone else. There's not much wrong with this, as long as you take into account that how your muscles exactly look when they grow for a large part depends on genetic factors. - For example, where...

oo many people are sitting at the training buffet with hungry eyes and small stomachs. Their goals, commitment and effort don't match up. This is something we all go through. Case in point, every summer some high-school football player sends me this question: "My coach tells me that if I gain 50...

<header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(124, 112, 94); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> PEDs Not Just Steroid Hormones. </header> Anabolic Steroids–> Used by athletes to recover after workouts and prevent “microtears” in...

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Keeping gains- Some tips for coming off a cycle for the moderate user to hold on to the new found muscle - These tips are for the moderate user and not for the high dose or long term AAS user, these basic methods will help maintain a degree of muscularity while in the off period. If all...

There's a new research chemical bass on the prescription drug Modafinil. For those of you who don't know what Modafinil is, it's basically prescribed for narcolepsy, and get enhance focus and concentration like adderall but without the "stimmed out, crack feeling. The addition of the 2...

by Josh Hodnik Nootropics, also referred to as cognitive enhancers, smart drugs, and memory enhancers are supplements, synthetic peptides, and nutraceuticals that are reported to improve focus, thought connection, memory, and sometimes wakefulness. These drugs are primarily used to treat...

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The Understated Effects of Mental Genetics by Geoff Roberts In bodybuilding, genetics are king. Simple as that. At some point in every bodybuilder’s career, they will inevitably come to realize this fact to be true, beyond any shadow of a doubt. This...